contained in economic announcements. In this article, the authors develop a simple-to-read index of these announcements that … they then use to construct nowcasts. The index tracks whether key economic data have come in stronger, weaker, or as …

This working paper considers the case for the use of the Consumer Price Index as a measure of inflation, and its use in …

at most 9 workers in the US and the UK and at most 19 workers in Canada. The Index aggregates a sample of anonymous … important gap by developing a new Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index that focuses on the smallest of small businesses with … QuickBooks Online Payroll subscriber data (QBO Payroll sample) from 333,000 businesses in the US, 66,000 in Canada, and 25,000 in …